Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Aug 1998 19:43:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Andrew J. Anderson" <> | Subject | Re: std VGA text console funnies |
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On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 12:23:41PM -0400, Andrew J. Anderson wrote: > > I've got an old ET-3000 based VGA card (256k, I believe) that exhibits > > strange behavior under 2.1.115. I boot into the default text mode, and it > > appears that any time the screen scrolls quickly the video memory gets > > some corruption (weird characters appear, ddoouubbllee characters, and > > attribute changes (flashing, solid background, etc)). > > This is a shot in the dark, but try adding #define SLOW_VGA to > /drivers/video/vgacon.c
That helped quite a bit, actually. I still see some corruption, but not nearly as much as before.
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